5+ hour, 41+ min ago  (404+ words) The requirement for unanimous European Council agreement on a tax package creates a major political hurdle for any initiative to raise cigarette to taxes and taxes on novel products further " in" alignment with WHO guidance. This, as the European Union…...

9+ hour, 14+ min ago  (818+ words) Where a person is born should not determine whether they survive, whether they live with dignity, or whether they are forced to endure years of preventable suffering while waiting for surgical care that may never come. Yet, across large parts…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (814+ words) Home to 1 in 4 people globally, the region should brace for "multi-hazards" and poor air quality apart from heat and water stress, according to a new report. The authors called on countries in the fractious neighbourhood to cooperate on data and…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago  (551+ words) Every year, around 27 million women bleed excessively after giving birth, and almost 43, 000 die " yet there are new ways for this to be detected and treated. This is according to a series on maternal health published in The Lancet on Friday…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1792+ words) GENEVA " Malaria has adapted and evolved for at least 30 million years. The oldest identified samples of the parasite were found in mosquitoes preserved in amber, from a family of insects ancient enough to have shared the planet with the dinosaurs....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1277+ words) Ghana's Parliament passed one of the most extensive, repressive anti-LGBT laws in the world late Friday, introducing prison terms for people who simply identify as lesbian and gay " but human rights groups say there was no quorum when it did…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1792+ words) GENEVA " The 79th World Health Assembly closed last Saturday after a long week of negotiations over the globe's most pressing health crises: financing gaps, rare diseases, a workforce shortage counted in the millions, a string of wars and humanitarian emergencies, and…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago  (1449+ words) GENEVA" The WHA's resolution recognizing steatotic liver disease (fatty liver) as an NCD is a long-awaited milestone for a chronic liver condition that carries a huge global health burden but is dramatically under-recognized, experts and patient advocates say." "What we…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1075+ words) The recent hantavirus outbreak triggered a wave of disinformation along similar lines to the COVID-19 pandemic: the virus was "fake, "deliberately engineered, and could be "cured by Ivermectin. In the past week, furious community members have attacked and torched tents…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (695+ words) International Ebola-related travel restrictions imposed on people from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda and South Sudan " which has yet to record a single case " are "unacceptable" will have a detrimental effect on the economies of affected countries, said…...